A renowned fellow at Holliday College was Professor Astronimo. Although an ally of the Earth-Two Wonder Woman, on one occasion his mind was controlled by the evil King Lunar and his "Brain Pirates", until the Amazing Amazon found a way to cure them. A similar tale befell the Earth-One Wonder Woman with the "Dream Merchant" and his moon minions.
On Earth-One, Conrad Starfield was the astronaut trainer for the Houston based Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. He was tasked with training aspiring trainee which for a brief period included Wonder Woman's alter ego of Diana Prince, along with future supervillains Stacy "Lady Lunar" Maclin and Mike "Ten of Spades" Bailey.
Perhaps the most famous of the learned men at Holliday College was Professor Chemico. A brilliant inventor, his crowning achievement was a climate changing device that could emit cold and heat waves. Stolen by the evil politician Prime Minister Blizzard, who used it versus Earth-Two's Wonder Woman, it was presumably returned to its creator. A duplicate of the device was utilized by that world's Minister Blizzard versus the Justice League of America and its Wonder Woman.
Back over on Earth-One, Doctor Phoenix was originally a legendary Abominable Snowman whose mental abilities transformed him into a human in line with his dreams. However, he found this to be a nightmarish existence, and felt it was somehow tied with Superman's appearance on the world scene. Twice he battled the Last Son of Krypton, and was ultimately defeated.
Perhaps the most prominent member of Holliday College was that of Dean Meg Sourpuss, who had the longest tenure at that education institution on Earth-Two of any of her contemporaries. On one occasion, a rogue scientist infected her, turning her evil and against Wonder Woman, although she later recovered and became an ally of the Amazing Amazon.
On Earth-One, her counterpart was only known as Starfire, the first woman to take that alter ego. Like Sourpuss, Starfire had a legion of women she supervised only for her own nefarious schemes, and she had ties to a university on her world named Stanhope. To that end, she had several encounters with Supergirl, even de-powering her for a brief period, although she was eventually defeated by the Maiden of Might.
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